Chapter 559 - Invincible Consciousness
GDK 559: Invincible Consciousness
Five days later. At the entrance to the most mysterious place on the Abyss realm: the Void.
Han Shuo and the fifteen Demons that followed closely behind Demon King Manticole, finally arrived at their destination.
It was a peculiar region filled with enormous, menacing plants. Each one of those strange towering trees would ferociously assault at Han Shuo and the party. There were marshes and swamps all over, with colorful miasma that constantly lingered in the air. Roaming about were also some huge and oddly-shaped abyssal creatures.
Manticole must have been totally familiar with this region. He led Han Shuo and the party flying crisscrossed, and only stopped when they arrived before a magnificent scene of colourful, glaze-like stardust current that ascended to the sky.
Han Shuo briefly surveyed his surroundings. He discovered that after Manticole had unfolded his Domain of Divinity, not a single plant or living thing was so unintelligent to dare approach them. The intense element of darkness gathered towards Manticole from all directions. After just a short time, the element of darkness within Manticole’s Domain of Divinity grew ten times more concentrated. All other elemental energies that were usually present between heaven and earth were nowhere to be found within the space it covered. Even the four edictal forces became twisted.
The fifteen Black Jade Guards that chaperoned Manticole immediately gained a great sense of discomfort. Without any elemental energies available that they could rely on, and having yet to truly become gods, a burst of dejection out of powerlessness and unease filled their hearts.
Fortunately for them, Manticole did not keep his Domain of Divinity deployed for too long. It didn’t take long after he unfolded his Domain of Divinity for Han Shuo to sense that in another region not far away, the element of lightning suddenly began to rapidly congeal. A long rumble reverberated through the sky. A party of men was rapidly approaching Manticole.
Manticole withdrew his Domain of Divinity right after the rumble. He said to Han Shuo in a warm voice, “Leviathan is here.”
Leviathan, one of the five Great Demon Kings of the Abyss realm, cultivated in the elemental energy of lightning and maintained a rather deep-rooted friendship with Manticole. Soon after Manticole withdrew his Domain of Divinity, an overbearing silhouette of interwoven lightning bolts landed before Manticole in the blink of an eye.
Listening in on the conversation of these two Demon Kings, Han Shuo, as the culprit behind the firework of lights, unhurriedly withdrew that strand of consciousness which was still pristine and sound. He thought to himself, Although the stardust current is indeed terrifying, my consciousness seems to be invulnerable to it. From this aspect, the consciousness formed using demonic arts is definitely much more magnificent and powerful than the Soul of Element or Soul of Edict formed using the twelve fundamental forces.
Manticole and Leviathan were standing right beside Han Shuo. These two lowgod Demon Kings, however, couldn’t detect that little maneuver of Han Shuo’s wonderful consciousness. This gave Han Shuo the feeling that demonic arts were superior to other cultivation techniques, while also further solidifying his staunch conviction to cultivate in demonic arts.
After Han Shuo withdrew his consciousness, that piece of sky no longer dazzled with brilliant lights. Leviathan turned around and solemnly explained to the group of Thunder Guards behind him, “Each and every one of you, especially those who came here for the first time, remember this by all means: do not charge ahead before the stardust current completely disappears. You all have seen the sight just now, when the stardust current stopped glowing with light, it meant that the soul of the trespasser had perished and annihilated.
After Leviathan completed his speech, Manticole too turned to his fifteen Black Jade Guards, put on a solemn face, cleared his throat, and said, “You all better listen carefully. Inside the Void, without my command, none of you must act out of your own initiative. If you act on any delinquency and cause me trouble, I will let you taste what is worse than death. Understood?” It was obvious that in Manticole’s mind, the lives of these minions that he brought up himself were of little value to him.
“Yes my Lord!” the altogether fifteen Black Jade Guards, including Bord and Zinia, answered in trepidation. Each one of them revealed dread on their faces, as though recalling the terrible methods of this usually mild-looking Demon King.
Han Shuo was somewhat astonished and thought to himself, A Demon King is indeed a Demon King. No matter how gentle and harmless he appears in usual times, that was nothing more than a mask for his bloody and cruel ways.
“So what should we do now?” After all, it was Han Shuo’s first time here. Although he had learned certain things about the Void from Bord and Zinia, there were still many things that he didn’t understand.
Towards Han Shuo, this existence of the same class, whether it was Manticole or Leviathan, both behaved rather friendly. The two simultaneously answered, “We wait!” After a short pause, Manticole explained, “We wait for the moment that the stardust disappears!”
Han Shuo nodded and said no more. He patiently joined others in waiting for the moment that the stardust current vanished.